9 Responses to “$79 Kindle Review and Video Walkthrough”

I think we can all agree that the holy grail of e-readers is the color e-ink tablet. A color e-ink tablet would be the end of dedicated e-readers since it would become redundant, provided you could toggle between color and black and white formats.

No E Ink Kindle is going to work very well for PDFs, much less scanned PDFs. Here’s the Kindle Paperwhite PDF review from a couple years ago; nothing has really changed since then so I haven’t posted any updates.

I currently use a Kindle app on my Galaxy tablet, it’s convenient but can get heavy reading in bed, so am thinking of getting a basic Kindle. I don’t want a back-light, and actually would prefer to read white on black. Can this new Kindle do that? and is the contrast good enough, can you tell me?

First, Kindles don’t have backlights like tablets; they have frontlights that are softer and easier on the eyes, so either way it’s the same kind of monochrome screen. The light actually tends to make the screen background appear a little whiter and lighter. The contrast is good with the basic Kindle; you just need a light or lamp to read at night like a regular paper book.